Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Wolf Eyes’ “I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces”

A couple of years ago, Wolf Eyes declared that they no longer play noise—they play “trip metal.” Noise was dead, they said,

November 24, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

A cursory search online yields any number of videos with singer James Graham and guitarist Andy MacFarlane from the Twilight

November 22, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Terry Ork arguably ignited rock’s first label when he put Television’s “Little Johnny Jewel” on seven-inch vinyl in 1975. And

November 21, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Thirty-two years after the Olympia, Wash., trio flubbed its first notes on tape, Beat Happening’s amateur appeal remains evergreen. Cherry-picked

November 21, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Will Johnson’s bottomless well of quality songcraft has obviously not hit a lull since the demise of his quintessential guitar-rock

November 19, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Even as an avowed Ty Segall acolyte, I’m having a harder and harder time telling his various projects apart. While

November 17, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

French producer Ludovic Navarre scored a major crossover hit with 2000’s Tourist, achieving a sensitive fusion of jazz improvisation with

November 15, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC